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Waugh Against the Fogeys
On June 17, 1953, the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper wrote to a friend: โI am now preparing a booklet which I hope (but perhaps it is too much to hope)...
A Classical Insurgency
Why learn Latin? And by what means? Many professional classicists have no convincing answer to either question. According to stereotype, classicists often donโt know how to talk to normal...
Sex, Lies, and Suicide
Mollyby blake butlerarchway editions, 328 pages, $17.95 It seems heartless to discuss Blake Butlerโs memoir Molly as a work of art. The story it tells involves deep trauma and grief, not...
How to Kill a Literary Genre
The Novelist: A Novel by jordan castro soft skull, 208 pages, $24 Jordan Castroโs The Novelist: A Novel describes a morning during which an unnamed writer struggles to resume...
